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Trade between India and the United Arab Emirates

In 2024, India exported $37.1 billion to the United Arab Emirates and imported $55.7 billion. India ran a deficit of $18.6 billion with the United Arab Emirates, compared with a deficit of $2.3 billion in 2019. The United Arab Emirates was India’s 3rd largest trading partner (8% of its trade), and India was the United Arab Emirates’ 2nd (15%).

Summary

India → United Arab Emirates
$37.1billion
United Arab Emirates → India
$55.7billion
India’s balance
-$18.6billion

Balance

India’s trade balance with the United Arab Emirates

Trade between India and the United Arab Emirates grew 35.1-fold since 1995

USD billions (current). India’s exports and imports; bars: its balance (green surplus, red deficit).

  • Exports 37.1
  • Imports 55.7
  • Balance -18.6

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$1.4 billion$1.2 billion$187 million
1996$1.5 billion$1.3 billion$148 million
1997$1.6 billion$1.5 billion$144 million
1998$1.8 billion$1.6 billion$253 million
1999$2.1 billion$2.3 billion-$271 million
2000$2.4 billion$1.1 billion$1.3 billion
2001$2.5 billion$916 million$1.6 billion
2002$3 billion$863 million$2.2 billion
2003$4.1 billion$1.5 billion$2.6 billion
2004$6.4 billion$3.8 billion$2.6 billion
2005$9.3 billion$5.1 billion$4.2 billion
2006$11.2 billion$7.5 billion$3.8 billion
2007$13.4 billion$16.1 billion-$2.7 billion
2008$18.2 billion$19.3 billion-$1.1 billion
2009$25.3 billion$19.7 billion$5.6 billion
2010$27.1 billion$30.9 billion-$3.8 billion
2011$37.2 billion$35.2 billion$2.1 billion
2012$26.9 billion$37.6 billion-$10.7 billion
2013$23.3 billion$32.7 billion-$9.4 billion
2014$21.6 billion$27.2 billion-$5.6 billion
2015$21.7 billion$20.5 billion$1.2 billion
2016$21.2 billion$19.4 billion$1.8 billion
2017$23.1 billion$23.4 billion-$343 million
2018$24.9 billion$26.8 billion-$1.9 billion
2019$28.1 billion$30.4 billion-$2.3 billion
2020$17.9 billion$24 billion-$6.1 billion
2021$22.4 billion$45 billion-$22.5 billion
2022$27.6 billion$53.3 billion-$25.7 billion
2023$31.4 billion$38.2 billion-$6.8 billion
2024$37.1 billion$55.7 billion-$18.6 billion

What they sell each other

What India sells to the United Arab Emirates

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Refined petroleum$6.8 billion · 18.4%
    9.6 million tonnes · India’s destinations
  2. Jewelry$5 billion · 13.4%
    69 tonnes · India’s destinations
  3. Cameras and broadcast equipment$2.5 billion · 6.9%
    3 thousand tonnes
  4. Diamonds$1.9 billion · 5.2%
    1 tonne · India’s destinations
  5. Coal tar oils$1.7 billion · 4.7%
    2.1 million tonnes
  6. Airplanes and helicopters$1.6 billion · 4.3%
    1 thousand tonnes · India’s destinations
  7. Printing and writing inks$1 billion · 2.8%
    6 thousand tonnes
  8. Cars$517 million · 1.4%
    37 thousand tonnes · India’s destinations
  9. Rice$488 million · 1.3%
    598 thousand tonnes · India’s destinations
  10. Cargo and cruise ships$461 million · 1.2%
    120 thousand tonnes · India’s destinations

What the United Arab Emirates sells to India

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Gold$16.1 billion · 28.9%
    206 tonnes · the United Arab Emirates’ destinations
  2. Crude petroleum$13.5 billion · 24.1%
    21.3 million tonnes · the United Arab Emirates’ destinations
  3. Natural gas and LPG$7.5 billion · 13.5%
    12.1 million tonnes
  4. Diamonds$5.5 billion · 9.9%
    11 tonnes · the United Arab Emirates’ destinations
  5. Airplanes and helicopters$2 billion · 3.6%
    3 thousand tonnes · the United Arab Emirates’ destinations
  6. Silver$2 billion · 3.5%
    2 thousand tonnes · the United Arab Emirates’ destinations
  7. Platinum$1.7 billion · 3.1%
    186 tonnes · the United Arab Emirates’ destinations
  8. Refined petroleum$1.3 billion · 2.4%
    2.1 million tonnes · the United Arab Emirates’ destinations
  9. Copper wire$790 million · 1.4%
    88 thousand tonnes
  10. Polyethylene$575 million · 1%
    558 thousand tonnes · the United Arab Emirates’ destinations

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Nhava Sheva (Mumbai) to Jebel Ali.

The estimated sea route between Nhava Sheva (Mumbai) and Jebel Ali is 1,227 nautical miles (2,273 km) long: ≈ 3–3.5 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Passages it crosses: Strait of Hormuz.

Sailing estimate without port calls, waiting or transshipment; not a schedule. One main reference port per country: in large countries it does not represent all of its ports.

Split by transport mode

  1. Sea$49.8 billion · 53.6%
  2. Air$43.1 billion · 46.4%

Mode estimated from value per kilo and geography; both directions together.

How much each matters to the other

The United Arab Emirates was India’s 3rd largest trading partner (8% of its trade), and India was the United Arab Emirates’ 2nd (15%).

The United Arab Emirates in India’s trade
8.1%
The United Arab Emirates’ rank among India’s partners
3rd
India in the United Arab Emirates’ trade
15%
India’s rank among the United Arab Emirates’ partners
2nd

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Other partners of India

Other partners of the United Arab Emirates

Sources and methodology

Sources and licenses

Methodology

Goods trade from CEPII BACI (BACI_HS92_V202601), in current US dollars, with exports and imports reconciled between countries. The transport mode is our own estimate based on value per kilo and geography. The sea route comes from our own network derived from World Bank shipping density (not from nautical charts), between one main reference port per country (World Port Index); days are the distance at 14 and 18 knots, without port calls or waiting. Data up to 2024.